Samsung - Galaxy Watch 4 Classic Stainless Steel Smartwatch 46mm LTE - Black

I love this watch. It documents my steps and activity during the day, keeping me motivated during the day. I have to use multiple timers for work, and this watch allows me to set a few at one time. A good investment for some that is a little to get by.

I "upgraded" to the galaxy watch 4 classic from the 1st galaxy watch classic and I have to say it's a major step back, even after going through a YouTube tutorial on settings that will save battery I'm lucky to get 2 days out of it. The HR monitor is intermittent and freezes without reason all the time and I've never had a workout where it doesn't freeze throughout the entire session. Terrible watch for the price, save money and stick with what you have or wait for the next one, hopefully that will be better as it would be hard to make it worse!

I purchased this product with a data plan with o2. The watch looks great and initial play with it was fabulous. However, the watch battery does not last a night (to monitor sleep) and also does not last a 5 mile run. The watch also overheats constantly. Ive now sent mine back. I love samsung products ( i have s21 and had numerous previously) and can accept some issues given its a new product but its not fit for purpose.

I am coming over from the Apple ecosystem, and find that I like my Galaxy Watch 4 much better than my Apple Watch. The battery, on both watches, run about the same….around 2 days, which is fine for me. I don't play games Galaxy 4, but rather use it as a watch and to text and answer phone calls. The only complaint I have is not enough stock faces. I prefer an elegant face that doesn't involve steps, breathing, etc.

Switched from the watch active 2 to this, and it was a painful step backwards. I originally assumed that the poor reviews were from people with unrealistic expectations from a reasonably priced watch, but I was very wrong. The battery life is actually genuinely incredibly poor (I thought people were exaggerating) it will not make a day with reasonable settings. Fortunately this aspect doesn't bother me too much (it can make a day if you turn off all smart features, but makes the device somewhat redundant) as I only use the watch for listening to music while running. Here are the issues I have with it. - [Most frustrating] It cannot be turned on and used for music, you need to budget about 20 minutes each time to use the offline music function. The watch needs to be left for about 15 minuets after turning on before it stops lagging painfully slowly. And you often have to turn it on and off multiple times before it allows you to play music without an internet connection. (In an ideal world you'd just put it on, leave the house and downloaded playlist would continue - this does not happen - if you don't turn on aeroplane mode before leaving, disconnecting from you phone and wifi, prior to leaving you'll have to spend about 10 minuets fiddling around with it outside, which is more annoying than doing it before. - Heart rate and gps sensors are terrible; doesn't bother me, but I find it perverse having come from the cheaper (at time of release) active watch 2. - The software experience is horrible, the watch freezes constantly, it has less options and apps just continuously close, forcing you to turn off and on the watch multiple times if you want to use it properly (i.e. change the music playing). Apps are generally terrible, i.e. spotify has no offline playlist (it does on the WA2) youtube music has offline (which is painful to use as previously stated), but you cannot pick songs that you want played (on or offline) it has a shuffle option that only plays them in one order (i.e. if you run for 30 mins everytime you have to listen to the exact same 8 songs in the exact same order even if your watch has downloaded a 500 song playlist). I'm sat typing this as I once again reset the watch and attempt to get it to work so I can go on a run, normally the 10 min on/off process is annoying, but not enough to actually write a review, but it's pushing 20 minutes now, and I realize that I have to put the watch away in my draw and buy another either garmin or just the Samsung watch active 2. The product is painfully bad, an incredibly frustrating experience and if you read this and buy it (as I did after reading negative reviews) you ultimately have yourself to blame when you shallow the loss and buy a second smart watch to replace it.